Rubens & the Eloquence of Drawing examines the formative graphic practice of the preeminent Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) within the context of early modern concepts of eloquence, especially in the early 17th-century literary and philosophical circles of Justus Lipsius (1547-1606). Taking Rubens s drawings seriously as erudite models of emulation and disegno in the Italian Renaissance tradition, the book reconsiders Rubens s drawings during his Roman period and just after he returned home to Antwerp, c. 1600-1620, in light of early modern, northern...